A Day Behind the Trade Counter
When you work at Bookmans you face temptation every minute of the day. The seemingly endless supply of desirable items threatens our ability to purchase only what we can comfortably fit on our shelves. Consequently, we put on blinders when we work the trade counter. BUT since we gave ourselves the freedom to overtly geek out this one month, we remove the blinders for a single day to marvel at the amazing things you bring to us. This way, you will know how much self restraint we practice behind the trade counter.
Housewares
The color and condition are a huge factor when it comes to buying housewares, and this deal is a perfect example of what we find attractive. We look for form and function because good housewares serve more than just one purpose. Fiestaware pitchers, unique wall art, gently used kitchen goods and hand painted skulls — SCORE! To top it off, the deal includes a vintage soda stream. As Abbi from Broad City says, “I will not buy a SodaStream full price, Bevers! I won’t do it!”
Books
While the work of Man Ray is packaged in a variety of mediums, he is best known for his photography. This beautiful collection focuses on his portraits of women shot in the 1930s-40s. It clearly shows how ahead of his time he was. This book came in with many other books of photography, which, depending on the subject, we always look for.
DVDs
Tired of waiting for Shark Week on Discovery channel? Pick up this DVD and it can be Shark Week at your house all year long. Box sets are always in demand at Bookmans. Because they are usually full of extras, box sets are also perfect for super fans.
All that cool stuff in just one day! We are fortunate to have loyal customers who bring us their gently used items for store credit or cash. We are happy to to explain our offers, so never hesitate to ask questions if you want to know why we did or did not buy something. Store credit never expires and is good at all our locations including Bookmans Sports.
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wanting to sell my collections of native american indian books. Have an inventory. Please advise the best way tp proceed.
taffy couts 916-580-7123
Since the only way we make offers is over our trade counter, the only way you’ll know for sure if we’ll take an item and how much that offer would be is to bring the books to our stores. We acknowledge that it’s a big task to pack up all your books, load them into your car and out on our counter without guarantees at a time when traditional book sales are sluggish. Oh, and it’s summer. Our advice is to call the store you plan to visit in advance. Tell them about the titles you have — maybe mention the couple that are popular or rare or hold some special value. That way you can have a better idea of when to come and what to bring in. If you are primarily interested in getting rid of your books, as opposed to getting trade credit, then you can leave the ones that we can’t make an offer on. All the books left on our counters are offered to schools, libraries and nonprofit organizations.
Store contact information can be found on our Stores page.